Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-03

with the word Father inscribed upon it There was floral piece of pansies; "Grand pa" was the inscription. There were alsc numerous other floral pieces.
 The bearers were Rev. Dr. Munger of tht United church, Rev. Dr. Todd of the Churcf
 College street church, Rev. I. c. Meserve o1 Davenport church, Rev. MT. Blakeslee o
 Fair Haven, and Rev. E. E. Atwater.
 The services commenced by an invocation by Rev. MT. Meserve. Rev. Dr. Munger reac scriptural selection, after which Rev. Dr Twitchell of Dwight Place church made the address, which was an excellent one. After
 prayer by Rev. Dr. Barbour of the college chapel the friends of the deceased were al lowed to view the remains. The remains
 were placed in the Ransom vault in EvergreeI cemetery to await the arrival of one of the sons of the deceased.
 The Dwight Place church choir sang sev
 eral hymns which had been favorites of tht deceased.
 In his address Dr. Twitchell said: REV. GURDoN W. MOVES.
 ''It is impossible for the true pastor to servt
 any of his people in scenes like these with
 out sharing largely in the bereaving provi dence which they experience. Those tie are very tender and very strong which binG the family of God together. Their joys ant sorrows are strangely common. They bea each others burdens. Whatsoever touches
 one is felt by all; and this O. tions of Christian fellowship in the worship and work of God.
 "When, however, one of their own mum l Der is called up higher, there is sense O. personal bereavement which he only feel' ! who comes to such an hour as this, calling | these servants of the Lord together in thei | last earthly offices for brother beloved. | EEO1r ranks fathers and hrathran havi been again invaded. Another has fallen a ! our side, who wrought with us in the blessed | ministry of the gospel with whom we hav | had sweet communion; with whom we hay, ! walked and talked of the things of the king | dom who knew as we know the hopes delay | ed and realized, common to us under shep herds; who had, as we still have, the un speakable privilege of leading souls out O
 darkness into light; of establishing believer in the truth, and of comforting mourners il hours of heavy grief; and who, just littl
 in advance of us, has entered into rest. "There is oday sorrow on the immediat family of the departed, such as they onl, feel who have passed through lik experience; sorrow on tn Stony Creek church, such as the.
 only feel who part with pastor highly hon l ored and tenderly loved. We, however, wh were his brethren in the ministry have sor TOW peculiar to ourselves.
 E'But were I here to speak of death a other than glorious release for the servan | of God should justly be accused of under estimating the gospel which our brother fo nearly forty years commended to the perfec confidence of the people to whom he minis
 tered; in which gospel he bid them rest. anc
 whose rewards he so lovingly and earnestl, assured them were infinite.
 "Death is never intimated in scripture as al
 undoing, but rather as the entrance on life more glorious than is ever possible with out an exchange of worlds
 ''True, life as we are accustomed to view it and speak of it, ends; but it lives on in othe spheres, and with other surroundings. Wher' | they are whose tolls have ended, what thei activities and experiences we may not assume l to say, but we are sure they have deliver ances and associations and comp&nionships the thought of which comes as supreme joy to all surviving friends.
 Painful as are these separations of earth
 to think of our dead as rising in their deatt to state of blessedness and glory, as having passed all possibility of pain or sorrow, as searching the existence for which they longed and labored, as coming home from long wearisome journeyings in a foreign land, and as waiting there for us when we shall have run our race--this is the solace of our strick- en hearts.
 "True love always seeks best things for those that are loved.
 Sudl1 dGlGmpI III IulS OI1S1 SeI- vice no accurate analysis of those elements of character or of labor which made the life of our brother a marked success in the min istry of the word, qualities which were long ago discovered by those who knew him best. I may, however, note the various churches in which he labored and in which he found warm place and high honors as a preacher and pastor.
 "Our brother entered on his ministerial work in 164S in connection with @ Presbyterian church in Portsmouth, Virginia, where he remained for near three years. His health, then failing, necessitated 8 change of eli mate. Thus he settled in Cornwall, Vt., where he remained about the same length of time. He then became col league of Rev. Dr. Stiles in the South church of this city. After the death of Dr. Stiles he became sole pastor of that church and served it with great fidelity and acceptance for about five years. Next he become pastor of the Second church of Fair Haven, which he served with equal fidelity and acceptance for eight full years. He then removed to Wood bury, where he preached for ten years. Then back to our city, and for the last five years has served the Stony Creek church in Bran ford, preaching his last sermon there scarce ten days before his death, leaving them now to mourn the loss of one as pastor than whom they never had of warmer affection or deeper devotion"
 1ulS IS IAO 4CCO1d IL nt1S GdhcA uuG u morcent to name these churches at Ports mouth, Cornwall, the South church New Haven, Fair Haven, Woodbury and Stony Creek in BranfoId ;but who shall estimate the saving forces set in motion by this man of God in these six pastorates, covering four de- cades and composing the lives of so many mortais?
 s1Many of those to whom our brother ministered have been reclaimed from sin and set in the Kings highway. Many of the faint hearted have been encouraged and filled with hope. Many have been established in the faith and made strong in God. Many have been comforted in stricken hours and given the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Many have been filled with as surance as they come down to the dividing stream and have sung their way to triumph with the saints on high. All through these well nigh forty years of self-sacrifcing service in the pulpit, in the prayer circle, and from house to house our brother has magni6ed the redeeming grace of God and held up Christ as mans only hope.
 "When you can tell how many dewdrops are drawn up by the ascending sun, how many roots of trees and flowers are moistened and quickened by the falling showers, how many leaves of the forest are made to rustic by the breath of wind-then you can tell how many souls find healing through the prayers and labors which cover
 
 life, remembering as you must that one soul lighted up illumines other souls, and these other souls, and these still others on down to the day when the great family of God is gathered home. An, how wondrous is this life of ours in it's reach and swayl
 'fDiel Yes, but live in other lives around us and after us, pouring of ourselves into the stream of time and never wholly spent until time loses itself in the ocean of eternity!
 "About one year ago our brother together with his family became members of the Dwight Place church, winning here at once all hearts by his loving spirit and most well come services in our social meetings. His critical analysis of truth, his earnest exhor- tations and tervent prayers together with his happy, hopeful way of putting things, all coupled with a warmth of Christian kindness, made us rejoice in his presence, and make us here mourneTs, now that we shall see his face and hear his voice no more on earth.
 Rarely, if ever, have I known a man of richer gifts and graces for the familiar conference meetings of the church. His utterances were evident ly out Of a rich personal experience of com panionship with Christ He had the power of entering into sympathy with all around him, and the discernment to apprehend truths supremely helpful. Speaking with the utmost freedom, praying with ferven. ,r, ,rb;oI, ,,aoda all faaI that ba xvo1Id baJr